punk this week: twisted teens, the carp + 16 more
NightFreak, Billy Gardner & Friends, Ultra Lights, Sharp Pins, Yankee Bastard, Youth in Asia, Vital Stress, and more. A stacked week.
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punk this week podcast: overlooked favorites + the ritornello form + hot load
A discussion of our favorite overlooked punk records from 2026 so far (aka records we haven’t brought to the podcast until now).
age of peace’s idyllic and necessary gear shift
Angie Willcutt and Micah Wu made waves with their vibrant and playful punk outfit Artificial Go. The Cincinnati duo find folk sanctuary as Age of Peace.
punk this week: smirk, chrome cell torture + 16 more
Gone fishin’. Here’s a free column with plenty of recommendations (and minimal writing).
see/saw jukebox: downtown boys
On the back of their new album Public Luxury, the long-running punk rock firebrands and organizers discuss perfect punk records.
playlist: the 53 best punk songs of june 2026
Some songs of the summer and a blog about one of the busiest months in see/saw’s young history. (Please subscribe.)
punk this week podcast: fiddlehead + alien nosejob
We stan “Weird Al” and Altoids Sours. The jury is out on violet Choward’s.
choncy on cincinnati cuisine, brainrot, and kitchen sink punk
The band discusses their new album Trademark, collaborating remotely, writing songs about jobs, and embracing the chaos of punk without subgenre.
punk this week: alien nosejob, downtown boys, debt rag + 12 more
On new records from CS Cleaners, Taxi Girls, Consensus Madness, Baby Jane, and more.
minneapolis punks voted to unionize a merch warehouse. sony music plans to shut it down.
Kings Road employs punk artists and produces merch for some of the world’s biggest punk bands. The morning of the union’s first day of bargaining, owners Sony Music revealed plans to shutter the workplace. The union intends to keep fighting.
shop talk’s secret? they don’t have anything to prove.
The Brooklyn garage punks sit down at a local bar to discuss slugs, Ramones, and approaching the band without ego.
punk this week podcast: roberta lips + non plus temps
On chalky candies, curd puns, and imagining every single band wearing sunglasses.
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punk this week: l.o.t.i.o.n., non plus temps, mirage, ekgs + 14 more
You ever heard of Body Suit? Poguba? Spiderweb? Get in here and learn about some deeply sick bands from around the world.
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media puzzle trot new land beyond the big log
Tom Peter on New Racehorse, horns in punk, their outstanding live show, and embracing the discomfort of new horizons beyond Lismore.
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punk this week podcast: buckets + cherry cheeks
Mouths turn green, Knicks in five, and a very special celebration of toot memes.
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punk this week: cherry cheeks, oddfellows, deadbeat beat + 14 more
La Securité, Artificial Go, Finale, Odor Eater, Acid Casualties, and some bands you probably haven’t heard of that kick a lot of ass.
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punk this week podcast: gimic + edging
Why doesn’t every band have a fan club, and why can’t we get Polar’s Kiwi Lemonade flavor in the Midwest?
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shaved ape on the punk mentors who changed his life
In a dining room lined with decades of punk ephemera, Vince Klopfenstein shares stories about chance encounters and the beauty of hardcore.
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punk this week: pleasure cube, gimic, osees, slippers, edging + 15 more
A week featuring new stuff from the Circulators, Prisão, K9, Liquid Cross, Blood Cannery, a new Minneapolis punk supergroup, and more.
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see/saw jukebox: devo’s gerald v. casale
The music icon and prophet from Akron, Ohio discusses the perfect punk record that was playing on the CBGB’s jukebox the night they booked their historic New York City debut.
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punk this week podcast: eddy current suppression ring + hillsboro
The first episode of Punk This Week that we recorded after getting yelled at by a legitimate icon.
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playlist: the 58 best punk songs of may 2026
On fatigue, a period of self-imposed isolation, overthinking the numbers, and of course, extremely good punk records.
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punk this week: eddy current suppression ring, pinky tex + 16 more
New ones from Full Size, the Bug Club, Patois Counselors, and M.A.T.B. (FKA Miranda and the Beat), plus can’t-miss records from brand new bands.
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byproxy did not plan to sound like this, and it rules
The brand new Portland band jammed together and quickly recorded one of the best punk demos of the year. They are not the death rock band they initially envisioned.